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#DenverTeacherStrike

TheVictors

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It’s a shit show today at DPS. My son’s IB Middle School has protestors demonstrating out front and my wife can’t be part of the strike b/c she isn’t in the Union (and is paid hourly and feels bad for the kids).

Ugh ...
 
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I think it's funny that most of the signs talk about how it's "about the kids"

Just be honest...the teachers want more money.
 
Teachers get screwed when it comes to fair pay for fair work.
 
Teachers get screwed when it comes to fair pay for fair work.

Well, hold on there. instead of actually getting informed and understanding how
much teachers in CO make and what their grievances here are, I'm going to repeat to you a bunch of propaganda written up by an organization funded by billionaires to cut public spending so their taxes can go down, and another bunch of propaganda provided by a pro-charter school movement that will profit from pulling money from the public school system and giving it to charters. I do this because I'm well informed.
 
Teachers get screwed when it comes to fair pay for fair work.

there are probably some teachers that are under-paid, I have no idea about the teachers in Denver. I was just talking about the picket signs in the news...most of them said it was "all about the kids"
 
Not sure how having a strike is for the kids. We had one in Arizona last season during the school year.. Arizona overall is not a good school system, you want more money teach better..
 
It’s not the Colorado Teachers Strike, it’s DPS specifically. The current head of DPS has been in her role for 5-weeks and inherited a bad situation. About 15yrs ago Denver schools tried a new compensation policy that the rest of the country was supposed to be observing. What they did was try to incentivize based on results ...you know, because lazy, no good, unionized teachers are so materialistic.

What resulted was schools ‘teaching to the Test’ or, preparing kids only for these standardized tests and scores. As a result, comp being so heavily based on scores made income unstable and teachers started leaving for other schools/districts like Boulder Valley, Cherry Creek and some private’s.

Denver teachers are not fairly paid.
 
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It?s not the Colorado Teachers Strike, it?s DPS specifically. The current head of DPS has been in her role for 5-weeks and inherited a bad situation. About 15yrs ago Denver schools tried a new compensation policy that the rest of the country was supposed to be observing. What they did was try to incentivize based on results ...you know, because lazy, no good, unionized teachers are so materialistic.

What resulted was schools ?teaching to the Test? or, preparing kids only for these standardized tests and scores. As a result, comp being so heavily based on scores made income unstable and teachers started leaving for other schools/districts like Boulder Valley, Cherry Creek and some private?s.

Denver teachers are not fairly paid.

unfortunately, I think most public schools teach to the standardized tests. It has been that way for years around here.

I think there are a lot of lazy, no good, unionized teachers everywhere (just like non-union workers). However, that is the problem with many unions. There isn't a good way to incentivize good teachers / employees when everyone is treated / paid equal. I don't think pay linked to test scores is the answer though.
 
Agreed - just expanding a bit on the actual/specific issue.

And East HS (which made the news nationally) is where my son will go and where my grandparents went ...they send kids to Duke, UM, the Ivy Leagues ...it’s not like Joe ‘call me Batman, Clark, Fair East Side ...
 
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Lol - Mrs Victors brought the striking teachers at her school a thermos of BAILEYS & coffee today

Fuck yes.
 
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